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You should know Garry Shandling from the critically lauded The Larry Sanders Show, but how many of you remember his previous series? Well this is it.  read more »

Some people loved Knight Rider, adored Airwolf or worshipped Blue Thunder, but for others there was only one 'undercover cop with a suped-up vehicle' show in the '80s, and that was Street Hawk. Now it's coming to DVD at last.  read more »

Optimum Home Entertainment continues its sterling work in re-releasing classic TV spy series The Avengers on DVD with this latest full-season set.  read more »

Out now is the latest issue of one of our favourite movie magazines, Cinema Retro, featuring on its cover some saucy vampire action in the form of Yutte Stensgaard from Hammer classic Lust for a Vampire.  read more »

Burlesque beauties entertained a select group of goggle-eyed journalists last night at Madame Jojo's in Soho as Nucleus Films launched two classic Bettie Page titles on DVD for the first time on R2.  read more »

Girls and ghouls including starlets Madeline Smith and Valerie Leon came out to play at the launch of the Hammer Festival last week. Celebrating the past and future of the iconic film studio, the Festival features an exhibition, screenings, book launches and music events.  read more »

If you want to share video, audio and image files with friends, but they're too big to e-mail conveniently, what do you do? Gemalto has the solution with YuuWaa Go, the first flash drive to include online storage, backup and sharing services.  read more »

SanDisk, global leader in the flash memory card market, has branched out into portable products ideal for fans of the 'sneakernet' - that is, anyone who needs to carry digital media from one location to another.

The Ultra Backup range is closest to SanDisk's core philosophy; it's a high-capacity USB 2.0 flash drive designed as a simple backup solution for any form of digital data.  read more »

Home cinema is not strictly tied to the home these days, with the rapid and seemingly unending rise of video-playing gadgetry allowing you take your movies anywhere you want.

The new LG Chocolate BL-40 mobile handset (with its 21:9 screen) and the iPhone, of course, are both devices that positively promote movie-viewing on the move, but, unlike with music or a basic phone call, a full-length film can seriously sap battery life.

Thankfully, I got to road test a range of Duracell products recently that aim to extend the viewing experience of movie-playing gizmos. And, I must say, I now make sure that I take one or two of them with me on a flight or train journey.  read more »

Speaker specialist Altec Lansing has launched the Expressionist Ultra, a distinctively styled 2.1 home speaker system designed to cross over from the PC market into gaming and home cinema.  read more »

One of the most highly-regarded cult TV series ever, The Avengers is returning to DVD after a few years in licensing hell. The good news is that new rights owners Optimum Classic is doing a good job of replacing the old Contender issues, which didn't cover some of the earlier material.  read more »

A mainstay of digital history channels, Nugus production Churchill's Bodyguard has finally come to DVD, following in the wake of Hitler's Bodyguard. This is a rather different proposition, as the titular character is not an elite of uniformed goons, but an unassuming copper from Brixton, Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson.  read more »

Comedian, broadcaster, author and host of the 2009 Home Cinema Choice awards, Danny Wallace, has been cast as a major character in the upcoming Assassin's Creed II. His voice and likeness will be used for the character Shaun Hastings, who serves as a historian, guide and source of information for the player as he proceeds through the game.  read more »

Available now is issue #15 of classic movie magazine Cinema Retro. Features include a world exclusive unpublished interview with Hollywood legend Lee Marvin, and a piece on Christopher Lee in one of his less well-documented roles, that of oriental villain Fu Manchu.  read more »

Packard Bell has returned to the PC market with a new look and a new philosophy, based on image not technology.  read more »